Asklemmy

43159 readers

2029 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

333

What is a video game that you'd love to play, but no one has developed yet? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

632 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Any type of game (sandbox, RTS, etc) where the landscape changes dynamically.

All games are either player vs player or player vs mobs or player vs game-mechanics-that-affect-your-stats. But I have never played a game where I have to consider a river overflowing and destroying a village, or an avalanche, or earthquakes.

Even when there are environmental hazards, the base map never changes. Rivers never change their course, islands don't appear or disappear, oceans don't dry up, dams don't burst, quarries aren't excavated.

The world and nature are always dead and static.

Edit:

Actually, Dwarf Fortress does tick those boxes quite often.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

This would be fantastic. I wish the Red Faction series was still alive for this reason specifically.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Check out Timberborn, it doesn't check all of your boxes but a lot of it revolves around water management - building dams and reservoirs, diverting rivers, surviving dry seasons, etc. At its core it's just a fun city building game and I highly recommend it if that sounds good to you. It's 20% off ok Steam right now too.